Quotes About Expectation

Ask more of them. Expect them to work like adults. Quietly alter the spirit with which things are done. Emphasize efficiency: anybody can be efficient (it isn't a question of talent), efficiency breeds success, and success raises morale. Once the spirit and personality of the group start to shift, everything else will fall into place.

KEYS TO POWER Everyone has insecurities. When you show yourself in the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity. This is to be expected. You cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others. With those above you, however, you must take a different approach: When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

If you never expect gratitude from a friend, you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful.

Being a leader of even the smallest group gives you something to live up to: people are watching you, judging you, depending on you. To lose your composure would make it hard for you to live with yourself.

What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement

Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early--exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born. But sometimes the opposite occurs, and the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible, even plausible.

What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his own. But how could you ever judge what men were really like? It was the young ones with the swaggering walks and the loud mouths who ended up bursting into tears and showing you pictures of their girlfriends. It was the bespectacled bankers and lawyers who liked to knock you around.

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations

Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

But I thought you said we didn't have to worry, Perrin said, and Tam shook his head. I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

people often did not like hearing about their futures, even when they said they wanted to.

Por el nombre de mi madre, desenvainaré cuando me digáis que lo haga y enfundaré cuando me digáis que enfunde. Por el nombre de mi madre, acudiré cuando me llaméis y me iré cuando me digáis que me marche. —Besó la hoja y alzó la mirada hacia ella, expectante.

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Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Taim will have to wait

There's always something new from you,' Perrin growled. 'Can't you tell us what to expect once in a while, instead of explaining after it happens?